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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums!2 California condor chicks have hatched from unfertilized eggs!
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Scientists at SDZWA discovered two California condor chicks have hatched from unfertilized eggs. This sort of asexual reproduction, known as parthenogenesis, is a first for the species and provides new hope for their recovery. Read more: http://sdzwa.org/condorchicks
https://stories.sandiegozoo.org/2021/10/28/san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance-conservation-scientists-report-first-confirmed-hatchings-of-two-california-condor-chicks-from-unfertilized-eggs/
Tikki
(14,557 posts)If you have ever had a California Condor fly near you it is an awe inspiring event.
For a bit one flew above our car driving down the California Coast heading south from Santa Barbara.
Tikki
That's cool! go condors!
panader0
(25,816 posts)getagrip_already
(14,742 posts)Drones, or male bees, are haploid insects that only have the dna of the mother. The queen has a choice of laying a fertilized or an unfertilized egg. All drones come from unfertilized eggs.
There is one strain of bees, ivory coast bees I think, where a female can develop from an unfertilized egg.
Insects, reptiles, fish and birds all use it to a degree. Nature will find a way.
Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)All females.
SergeStorms
(19,200 posts)Let's start a religion. 🕍 🦅
Javaman
(62,521 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)SergeStorms
(19,200 posts)What if we can get his holy noodlyness to ride on the back of the sacred Condor? 😳
The sacred Condor could be the holy conveyance of the almighty FSM. He has to get around somehow, and rolling meatballs gather a lot of gunk after awhile.
We'll have to raise this question at the next Flying Spaghetti Monster delegate convention.
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)....you be in the afternoon seminar on "The Theological Implications of Parmesan and Romano Cheese Blends"? Hope to see you.
SergeStorms
(19,200 posts)Spaghetti: Throw it at the wall, or cool and suck?
I got shut out of the very popular "Theological Implications of Parmesan and Romano Cheese Blend" seminar. Seats for that always go so quickly.
Maybe at one of the pre-registration covfefe and biscotti hours?
calimary
(81,238 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I don't care what the mother claims.
SergeStorms
(19,200 posts)How many immaculate conceptions do they think we'll fall for anyway?
dobleremolque
(491 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)Ok! I WAS WRONG!!!!!
hunter
(38,311 posts)Explain that to the Evangelical Christians.
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,755 posts)I for one welcome our new immaculately conceived Condor overlords.
Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)Parthenogenesis results in chicks that are genetically identical to the parent - just like clones.